Improving your writing can be difficult when you are constantly writing about the same things, day after day.The reading helps with making structure, seeing up the words and paragraphs in a way that is pleasing to read.You know you need to mix things up, but that’s often easier said than done. Reading other people's worked have helped me to become a better writer. I see what they have done wrong or right, then see if my writing matches up, to the standards. I would say reading. Searching within yourself and actually "trying" to find the words to say is making too much of an effort. Writing should come as a natural, flowing unit of words.Sometimes I have so much going on in my little head, I need a way to make sense of it all... and on paper (or it's virtual equivalent) is where things make sense for me.